"spirochetostatic" meaning in English

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          "alt": "spirochetostatic is to spirocheticidal as bacteriostatic is to bacteriocidal",
          "word": "spirocheticidal"
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          "word": "spirochetocidal"
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          "word": "spirochetolytic"
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        {
          "ref": "1944, Cedric C. Carpenter, “Failure of penicillin to prevent syphilis”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 43, number 2, pages 389–390",
          "text": "As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.",
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        "Inhibiting (curbing) spirochetal populations although not destroying them."
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        "(medicine, biology) Inhibiting (curbing) spirochetal populations although not destroying them."
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  "word": "spirochetostatic"
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        "(medicine, biology) Inhibiting (curbing) spirochetal populations although not destroying them."
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